That's not me, I don't even notice. Even when around the grandsons, I'm not careful. If they've been sick while I was there I try to remember not to take a bite of their left over something on a plate but sometimes I forget. I just don't worry about germs...my daughter in law is the opposite but her mom was OCD germaphobe and still is. Her mom travels some for her job and when she comes back from a trip, she won't even bring the suitcase in the house...she takes everything out and throws it in the wash and disinfects her suitcase before bringing it in. When that grandma visits she's always by the sink washing something, when I visit I'm playing with the 3 boys.
I just woke up feeling worse. When I went to the bathroom to cough, I noticed a trace of blood. My husband said it's because I had abused my lungs because my coughing is terrible. And then we realized that my condition is worst in the morning maybe because our bedroom is air conditioned. It's really bad that I've been away from work for 2 days and today is the 3rd day that I would be absent. And then tonight is our overnight stay in the 5-star hotel courtesy of the voucher. I don't know if my physical condition will allow me or maybe I need to go to the doctor instead of the hotel.
Yikes, Corie...please go to the dr. I've never coughed up blood. Maybe you can use the voucher another time if you explain the circumstances. If they refuse...tell them okay, I'll come and sit in the lobby and cough and get people sick.
Corie the air conditioning will certainly be making your cough drier and more likely to be harsher and potentially causing a rupture where you're coughing so hard. Please go and see a doctor or a pharmacist and get yourself checked out to ensure nothing is too badly wrong, and hopefully get some meds to calm down your hacking sore cough...get well soon!!
This is exactly right, @Chrissy Page ! The more we are exposed to small doses of germs, and our body's defense system eliminates them, the stronger our natural defenses become. I have often wondered why it was that back in the "olden days" of the 50's and 60's, we could always order steaks and even hamburgers rare or medium rare, and no one ever got sick from doing that. Now days, they tell you that you are doing it at your own risk, if they give you the choice at all. From what I have read, this is because we were all exposed to more germs back then, and built up strong immune systems. Even the colds that people get will affect different people differently. If you have a strong immune system, you might not even get sick because your body would just fight off the infection before it got a good start, but otherwise the infection will spread, and then it takes the immune system a lot longer and much harder work to get over it. I never get flu shots either; but I seldom get sick, and I don't use the wipes at the store, either. And I still like meat medium rare !
FYI, my cold is now subsiding. But my husband's cold is still peaking. The problem is that we are to leave for Singapore on Thursday for an early morning flight (5am), that's Oct. 27. If his cold is that bad, we might be detained in the airport? I hope not. In fairness, we have no fever. Just the cough and an occasional sneeze. But our voice reveals the truth that something is bothering us.. that bad cold. Anyway, I am hoping that tomorrow, Wednesday, my husband's health would turn for the better so our trip will be hassle free in the airport.
@Corie Henson - Would you try fresh pineapple juice, it had helped us I sympathise so much for you, the cough is horrendous ! Could you turn the AC off for tonight, see if that helps ....................
Also, zinc capsules, and remedies like zicam which they sell here, but probably not there, are supposed to shorter a cold. If I remember right though, you have to take them when the cold is just beginning. If you wait too long, they might not work. Other than something like that, I really have no idea what could be done at this point. Sometimes you just have to wait out the virus.
We are drinking orange juice. But we have pineapple juice in the food cabinet. Maybe pineapple juice is more potent? With the air conditioning, hmm let me try because our dogs sleep in our bedroom and for sure they will complain if the air conditioneer is not working. But I guess the air conditioner aggravated the cold.